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AWILLIAM P. BROWN, OF WATERTOWN, NEW YORK.

`Lam Patent No. 81,592, ma September i, 186s.

IMPROVEMENT' IN ADVERTISING SHOW-FRAMES.

TO ALL WHOM I'I MAY CONCERN:

Be it known that I, .WILLIAM I. BROWN, of Watertown, in the county of Jefferson, and State of New York,

have invented a new and improved Advertising-Bulletin Frame; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable those skilled in the art to make anduse the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is afront'view of my improved bulletin-frame.

Figure 2 is a back view ofthe same.

Figure 3 is a Vcross-section of the frame through the line z x, lig. 1.

Figure 4 is a similar section, in red color, showing certain modifications of the invention.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The object of this invention is te provide a convenient and inexpensive means of publishing a number of business advertisements in the same frame.

It consists of a frame constructed with several devices, for the convenient insertion or removal of a number of advertisements, as'the iirm, styles, and nature of business, and addresses, and the like, whereby the' same can be inserted, and displayed permanently in some public place, and so arranged that anyone of the.

said advertisements can be readily removed, or substituted by other or different advertisements.

It consists of a'frame, having an arched, angular, or other ornamental top, and provided withan inner removable frame, having sash-strips for holding several panes of glass. 4 The inner frame is further provided with a: number of removable or hinged backs, corresponding in size and number to the panes, and whieh'it within the compartments of t-he sash and against the panes, thus holding them in place.

The fronts of these backs are provided with any suitable ornamentation, as a colored ground of paper,

cloth, Hoek, or paint, either plainlor figured, and. the cards of advertisement, either printed or artistically executed by hand, are gummed or otherwise athxed upon the colored ground of the backs, which will thus display them through the paneswhen the backs are in place.

Removable blinds or shutters are also provided, for the protection of the glass from breakage during the night. The blinds are in two parts, and are held -in place by a groove or projecting moulding, formed, on the outer frame, in front of the glass,the lower and outer edges of the blinds iitting .in the groove, and secured from removal by an eye-bolt and padlock, the said eyc-bolt projecting from the sash so as toicome between the proximate edges of the blinds.

Other devices, perfecting the whole, will be duly set forth inthe following specidc description.

In the accompanying drawings- I l A is the outer frame, and

d the inner*frame, which is removable when occasion requires.

r.lhis latter frame is crossed with sash-strips a, which are xabbeted to receive theedges ofthe glass panes, which panes are shown in green color at tig. 3.

B are the removable backs, and may beeithed hinged to the frame d by butts m, and secured by ordinary face-locks Z, or may be separately'removable from-the frame, being confined by metal bars e, attached loosely to staplesfin a strip, h, and reaching across the backs, as shown, to staples and padlocks t', on the frame A.

n rt are the blinds, and are of wood.

ois the moulding, forming Athe groove in which they rest.

lc is the eye-bolt, against which thc blinds shut, and

p the padlock securing them. o

The blinds are inserted by slipping their outer edges into the vertical part of the frame A, and then sliding downward, While the lower edges are entered in the bottom groove.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters-Patent, is

The bulletin-frame, as constructed of the outer fralne A and inner frame d, the latter divided by sashstrips a, and provided with panes of-glass and removable backs B, the frame A having mouldings and fasteningdevices, adapted to secure the shutters n, all arranged substantially as herein shown and described, for the purposes specified. A

The above specification of my inventionsigned by me, this day of May, 1868.

WM. P. BROWN.

Witnesses:

ALEX. F. ROBERTS, FRANK BLocKLEY. 

